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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2012
Meir Ben Itay, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brian Beckman, Necastle, WA (US);
Meir Ben Itay, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brian Beckman, Necastle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for configuring a route-planning module using one or more configuration plug-ins. The route-planning module may be configured to create a driving route, an internet packet route, a social event route, and/or a variety of other routes. A graph used by the route-planning module to create a route may be modified by a graph configuration plug-in, which may add, remove, and/or modify nodes and/or edges within the graph. Attributes associated with edges and/or nodes within the graph may be added, removed, and/or modified by an attribute configuration plug-in. Costs associated with edges and/or turns from a first edge to a second edge at a node may be modified by a cost configuration plug-in. In this way, the route-planning module may be customized using one or more configuration plug-ins (e.g., to accommodate user preferences).